"Letres qui van per tal afar": un nouveau "salut" occitano-catalan et la fortune du genre en Catalogne (I)

The recent discovery of a new occitan-catalan salut or love-letter in verse enables a new investigation into this neglected field of medieval Catalan literature. This first article offers a brief survey of the attention the genre has received so far in order to define the problems it raises; it then provides a new edition and a reading of the text that has recently come to light, and finally proposes a provisory corpus of Catalan saluts.